# Collective Cancer Cell Behavior Predicts Spread Better Than Single Cells

- slug: collective-cancer-cell-behavior-predicts-spread-better-than-single-cells
- date: 2026-03-21
- category: Biotech & Life Sciences

Geneva researchers find metastasis runs on a gradient, not a switch — and built an AI to read it

A University of Geneva team cloned individual cancer cells to discover that tumor spread depends on collective cell behavior, then turned that insight into a prediction tool that outperforms existing...

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